Author(s)

Xuerui Wu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Zhaotong University, Bozhou, Anhui, 657000, China

Corresponding Author

Xuerui Wu

ABSTRACT

Through interviews with 10 new generation migrant workers who are players of "Honor of Kings", this study examines the media practice of this group after entering the city, especially the practice of video games through experiential observation and in-depth interviews, and finds that in the real environment of media empowerment, video games are one of the important channels for new generation migrant workers to construct social relations, and also an important virtual identity for them to construct their own identity actively. It is also an important virtual field for them to actively construct their own identity. Through video games, new generation rural migrant workers try to maintain and consolidate the strong social relations in the past, expand the weak social relations, and construct a diversified social relationship network centered on the media.

KEYWORDS

New generation of migrant workers; identity; games

CITE THIS PAPER

Xuerui Wu, Hacking Together: Emotional Compensation and Identity Remodeling in Games: Interviews Based on New Generation Migrant Workers in a Village in Northern Anhui Province. Media and Communication Research (2024) Vol. 5: 9-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2024.050402.

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